A new story, nursery rhyme, or joke read by the popular cast will be available every day through Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation's nationwide release on July 13. Customers can access this new skill by simply saying, "Alexa, open Hotel Transylvania."

In addition to bedtime stories, customers can also set up a custom Hotel Transylvania alarm for Alexa through the Amazon Alexa app.

Commenting on the announcement, Elias Plishner, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Digital Marketing, Sony Pictures Entertainment, said, "The Hotel Transylvania characters have won over young audiences and their families for years. We love to utilize new technologies like voice recognition to engage our young fans with the characters they love and spark their imaginations in unique ways. This Alexa skill will surprise, entertain, and enhance family time throughout the summer season."

Audiences can catch the beloved monster family's young vampire, Dennis, putting the Alexa skill into action with a custom video, at
https://youtu.be/coUBGkIZfRU.

About Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer VacationIn Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, join our favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. But the dream vacation takes a dangerous turn when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the human captain of the ship, Ericka, who holds a mysterious secret that threatens them all. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by Genndy Tartakovsky and Michael McCullers, the film is produced by Michelle Murdocca.

About Sony Pictures AnimationSony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the record-breaking monster comedies HotelTransylvania and HotelTransylvania 2, the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters TheSmurfs and TheSmurfs 2, and the mouth-watering CloudywithaChanceofMeatballs movies—with the fully animated reboot Smurfs: TheLostVillage available on digital and Blu-ray now; a surprising and comic take at the secret world inside our phones with TheEmojiMovie now on Digital HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD; the inspirational TheStar now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital. Next will be Genndy Tartakovsky's HotelTransylvania 3: Summer Vacation in July 2018; from the minds of Chris Miller and Phil Lord will come next the groundbreaking animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in December 2018, followed by the original feature comedy The Mitchells Vs. The Machines in January 2020; and the animated musical Vivo, featuring original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, in November 2020. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy ArthurChristmas; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, ThePirates! BandofMisfits. In 2007, Surf'sUp also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film; a sequel entitled Surf'sUp 2: WaveMania is now available on digital and DVD. The division, whose first feature film OpenSeasonled to a very successful movie franchise including the brand new OpenSeason: ScaredSilly now available on digital, DVD and Blu-ray, was founded in 2002. Sony Pictures Animation is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group.